Acronyms & Abbreviations
Use our handy guide below to look up frequently-used acronyms and abbreviations in conversations about health care and health research in British Columbia:
AHSN: Academic Health Science Network
APRU: Applied Policy Research Unit (APRU)
BC: British Columbia
BCCA: British Columbia Cancer Agency
BCCRIN: BC Clinical Research Infrastructure Network - now known as Clinical Trials BC
BCEHI: British Columbia Ethics Harmonization Initiative - now known as Research Ethics BC
C2E2: Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation
CFRI: Child and Family Research Institute
CHEOS: Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcome Sciences
CIHR: Canadian Institutes of Health Research
CST: Clinical and Systems Transformation Project
eCoP: Electronic Community of Practice
EMN: Emergency Medicine Network
FNHA: First Nations Health Authority
HSPRSN: Health Services and Policy Research Support Network
IHA: Interior Health Authority
InspireNet: INnovative Health Services & Practice Informed by Research & Evaluation Network
Island Health: Island Health Authority
MSFHR: Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
PCORI: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
NHA: Northern Health Authority
PDSA: Plan, Do, Study, Act
PHSA: Provincial Health Services Authority
PI: Principal Investigator
PopData: Population Data BC
PTC: Permission to Contact - now known as BC Health Research Connections
QI: Quality Improvement
RCT: Randomized controlled trial
REDCap: Research electronic data capture
SPOR: Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research
SUPPORT: Support for People and Patient-Oriented Research and Trials
TCPS2: Tri-Council Policy Statement 2
UBC: University of British Columbia
UBCO: University of British Columbia - Okanagan
UNBC: University of Northern British Columbia
UVic: University of Victoria